Abstract Sickness severity scores are widely used for neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units to predict severity of illness and risk of mortality and long-term outcome. These scores are also used frequently for quality assessment among various neonatal intensive … Continue reading →

Very premature babies are often fed via a tube but, obviously, at some point they need to move to being fed orally. In this study Ann Gerges, from the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, led a team of researchers … Continue reading →

Before birth the two main arteries connected to the heart are linked by a blood vessel called the ductus arteriosus, which is an essential part of foetal blood circulation. This vessel should close shortly after birth but sometimes doesn’t (patent … Continue reading →

Much as people would like to believe everything ends happily ever after once babies are sent home from an intensive care unit (NICU)many of them remain poorly and end up having to come back to hospital every so often. In … Continue reading →

Hearing people talk, or being read to, is important for young babies’ developing brains but doesn’t happen very often in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). In this study Bernadette M. Levesque, from Boston University School of Medicine, led a team … Continue reading →